How to Use hypersexual in a Sentence

hypersexual

adjective
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  • The hypersexual depictions of Asian women conceal the exploitation that shapes the many forms of Asian women’s labor in the United States and abroad.
    — Genevieve Clutario, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Out of her foursome of friends, Angie might be defined as the hypersexual friend with a rotating door of escapades to keep her occupied.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Most of the victims were accused, often wrongly, of major crimes such as rape or murder, leaning on tropes that blacks were hypersexual and vicious.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020
  • Racist stereotypes suggest men of some races have large penises and are hypersexual, while others are undersexed with small ones.
    — Peter Lehman, Chron, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Early in her career, Kim was the subject of critiques for her hypersexual and explicit lyrics as well as her provocative fashion sense.
    — Iman N. Milner, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • She was modeled after Bild Lilli, a risque doll and an adult gag gift based on a racy hypersexual German comic book character.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 9 July 2023
  • Black women, on the other hand, and other women of color, are depicted as difficult to be with, feisty, loud, and hypersexual.
    — Brianna Holt, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And Black adults could be infantilized in the same breath as Black children, especially girls, were denied their youth, seen as predatory and hypersexual.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Add to this pornographic films, which have done more not only to objectify women, but also to give men who view them the idea that women are hypersexual and welcome their advances.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Critics, both professionally and on social media, have zeroed in on the hypersexual content of the show.
    — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 30 June 2023
  • Society may paint girls of color in certain ways: Loud, aggressive, hypersexual, greedy, angry, lazy, dumb.
    — Naomi Wadler, Teen Vogue, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Her inevitable transformation into an abrasive, hypersexual, rebellious loner (with fur and fangs) is of course a metaphor for the horrors of adolescence.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Confused by her squad’s hypersexual dancing, the alien enemies are destroyed.
    — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The perceptions of Asian and Asian American women as submissive, hypersexual and exotic can be traced back centuries.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Dana was also on the lookout for cicadas hosting an unusual fungus — one that leads to their butts falling off, doses them with a psychedelic-amphetamine cocktail and turns the males hypersexual.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
  • Can this industry, and the men who control it, really only imagine men as angry, violent, hypersexual killers?
    — Deirdre Coyle, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The performances would stereotype black men and women as ignorant, hypersexual, superstitious, lazy people who were prone to thievery and cowardice.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
  • To be sure, there is a long and inglorious history of false cross-racial accusations that led to lynching as well as enduring racist stereotypes about black men as innately violent and hypersexual.
    — Treva B. Lindsey, Vox, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Spiegelman, 74, speaks softly and with precision, and has a reserved, professorial demeanor that can seem at odds with some of his transgressive early comics, which can be hypersexual or grotesquely morbid.
    — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • All the instances of hypersexual stereotyping in advertising and media contribute to an environment where men feel it’s OK to harass and commit violence against Asian women, Kuo said.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Results showed that 17 percent of female API characters are verbally objectified and 13 percent are dressed in hypersexual clothing, more than white or non-Asian counterparts.
    — NBC News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The study highlights recent findings including how infection leads to hypersexual behavior.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Harmful negative and racist tropes of Black men as hypersexual, overly aggressive, and intellectually inferior are commonly seen in film and television.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In intimate relationships, Johnson says, the perception of a bisexual partner as hypersexual can fuel jealousy.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Asian men have historically been portrayed as emasculated, undesirable nerds, and Asian women have been stereotyped as exotic, hypersexual creatures.
    — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • These displays depicted black people as lazy, ignorant, cowardly or hypersexual.
    — Faith Karimi and Doug Criss, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Experts said previous hypersexual images of Asian women were, in part, formed by Western imperialism and racist legislation, only to be further confirmed by Hollywood depictions conjured up by predominantly white male gatekeepers.
    — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Toxic masculinity is a set of harmful behavior patterns rooted in patriarchy in which men are hypersexual, misogynistic, homophobic, violent and unemotional.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Scientists advised against consuming hypersexual zombie cicadas infected with psychoactive fungus.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Some male mice became exclusively homosexual or hypersexual.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 19 June 2017

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